1 Thessalonians 1:3-5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love and endurance in hope[a] of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father, 4 knowing, brothers loved by God, how you were chosen.(A) 5 For our gospel did not come to you in word alone, but also in power and in the holy Spirit and [with] much conviction. You know what sort of people we were [among] you for your sake.(B)
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- 1:3 Faith…love…hope: this, along with 1 Thes 5:8, is the earliest mention in Christian literature of the three “theological virtues” (see 1 Cor 13:13). The order here stresses eschatological hope, in line with the letter’s emphasis on the Lord’s second, triumphal coming, or parousia (1 Thes 1:10; 2:12, 19; 3:13; 4:13–5:11; 5:23).
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